Usually the worst that happens when somebody gets upset about something published in the Times Union is that my ear gets chewed on. It’s not bad. Unhappy and angry words I can handle. Complaints seldom go beyond that. Once a state legislator — a particularly dumb one, a description that I realize narrows his identity […]
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Some Sunday readers weren’t laughing at the illustration published with the “Anger management” commentary about right-wing talk radio. “It’s not accurate,” one reader said. “There’s nothing in the story that mentions trash.” Dorothy F. e-mailed: “I would like to comment on the very trashy “Anger Management” by KC Halloren regarding talk radio. Three Words: FREEDOM OF SPEECH […]
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How can I thank the many helpful people who have suggested that it’s time for me to board the Times Union corporate jet, Rosebud Air, and fly to Washington to ask for a newspaper industry bailout? You are right, of course. Since everybody’s asking for direct help from Uncle Sam these days, it’s time to […]
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Two days after Barack Obama was elected president, I was in a group of people visiting several embassies in Washington. Because the diplomats we met didn’t realize they were speaking to a journalist, I shouldn’t mention the countries. Let’s just say they were all allies of the United States, though they haven’t always been. At […]
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Like many newspapers around the country, we’ve had a huge demand for the Nov. 5 paper touting Barack Obama’s election. Many Capital Region retail locations and newsstands were sold out in the morning and refilled later Wednesday afternoon. (We did run several extra thousand copies of the Times Union in anticipation of the demand.) A suggestion – call […]
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On this day after Election Day, front-page headlines around the country varied from a simple “Obama!” to “Change has come to America”. The Times Union’s A1 headline changed between editions from “America’s choice” to “A nation’s choice”. If you want to see how the election played, check out the Newseum‘s collection of 719 front pages from 66 countries.
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Dear Times Union, I guess no one noticed that the picture on page A2 in (Thursday’s) paper is saying, that Prince William is meeting with British actor Daniel Creig. If that is Prince William, then I am Queen Elizabeth. Sorry, I know that is not so important, but anyway … Hilda from Clifton Park Dear Liz, It’s not […]
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People like to read numbers in the newspaper. True sports fans, for example, gobble up the box scores and other statistics that we refer to as “agate” lists — named for the tiny type just 1/14 of an inch high (though why it’s named after a volcanic rock, I can’t say). So let’s take a […]
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